Brother
- Episode aired Jan 17, 2019
- TV-14
- 1h 1m
The crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joins forces with Captain Pike to unravel the mystery of seven mysterious red signals that have appeared across the universe.The crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joins forces with Captain Pike to unravel the mystery of seven mysterious red signals that have appeared across the universe.The crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joins forces with Captain Pike to unravel the mystery of seven mysterious red signals that have appeared across the universe.
- Lt. R.A. Bryce
- (as Ronnie Rowe Jr.)
- Spock
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCaptain Pike tells Commander Burnham that Spock has a way of "making people see that logic was the beginning of the picture, not the end". This is a lesson Spock himself tries to impart to fellow Vulcan Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) when he tells her that "logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end".
- GoofsThe crew of Discovery is able to identify the Hiawatha by having Saru, who is said to have better visual acuity than humans, read its registry number off the viewscreen. The image on the viewscreen was an enlargement of a digital image. Saru would not be able to pull any more visual information out of it than exists in the computer.
- Quotes
Captain Christopher Pike: I'm here at Starfleet's order to take command of the Discovery under Regulation 19, Section "C."
Saru: Well, we received no notice from Starfleet.
Captain Christopher Pike: Because I was asked to deliver the news myself out of a respect for what you and your crew have been through.
Saru: Forgive me, Captain. Your directive is only instituted under three contingencies: when an imminent threat is detected, when the lives of Federation citizens are in danger, or when no other officers or equal or higher rank are to mitigate this threat. May I ask under which contingency you are here?
Captain Christopher Pike: All of them.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Discovery: Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (2019)
The plot itself was a little basic and standard Star Trek, but that's what the fans want right? We didn't really get much new information, but it's early days for season two. Last season we didn't have a clue what was going on until episode three!
-Captain Pike- Anson Mount does a great job of balancing a mixture of what we've seen from original series youngest Pikey, and the 2009 reboot ol' Pikers as a now middle-aged and middle-ground version. Visually, Pikey-pants 3.0 (or is it 2.0?) looks almost exactly how you'd expect, and attitude-wise he's a new-ish type of captain again. He has the confidence of Kirk and the wisdom of Picard, so we'll call him Captain Pirk Pikard from now on until this changes. I'm confident that going forward we'll get more depth to the character.
-Spock- The difference between recasting Spock and recasting Pike is that the latter was a previously lesser known and fairly one-note character. Spock is iconic of the whole franchise, and Sci-Fi in general. Zachary Quinto did the impossible of successfully portraying his own believable take on the character only 10 years ago! I think I would rather they just keep mentioning the Spock story, without ever showing him. If they get this wrong, it could easily break Discovery forever.
-Conclusion- So far, a strong, if not overly interesting start. It definitely has a little sprinkling of that fun feel of 90s Star Trek, which I think they'll build upon because I've just read that Jonathan Frakes is the director of episode 2...
- farren_perkins
- Jan 19, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1